What We Learned About PayPal’s Crypto Strategy This Week

Prior to Wednesday’s decision, PayPal users weren’t allowed to move their holdings off the platform. PayPal’s embrace of cryptocurrencies appears to be growing after the payments provider revealed that it will allow users to withdraw their digital assets to third-party wallets. The news, which was reported by Reuters Wednesday afternoon, comes just seven months after PayPal first enabled crypto purchases on its platform. At the time, the decision was heralded as a major milestone in mainstream recognition of digital assets. The Wednesday announcement means PayPal users will be able to send....

Bitcoin.com spoke with a Wall Street trader on why PayPal’s centralized P2P payment system Venmo is preferred among his circle over Bitcoin to uncover what is preventing the cryptocurrency from breaking into the mainstream. It appears that the never ending stream of Bitcoin eulogies is not slowing down anytime soon, as the world’s first decentralized....

The introduction of bitcoin purchases to PayPal’s 346 million global users is the biggest step toward mainstream crypto adoption ever. The post Palling Up To Crypto: Could PayPal’s Bitcoin Accommodation Lead To Widespread Adoption? appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

PayPal’s crypto integration may bode well for Bitcoin price as its user base could triple Bitcoin (BTC) price has again punched through the $13,000 mark after yesterday’s PayPal’s announcement sparked a powerful rally which drove the price to a new 2020 high. Currently sitting near $13,100, Bitcoin price has rallied nearly 10% since the announcement and BTC is now close to overtaking PayPal as the 21st biggest asset by market capitalization.PayPal’s crypto announcement comes two weeks after Square, another payments giant, announced its own foray into Bitcoin by investing roughly 1% of its....

These week's news highlighted how governments test new regimes for cryptocurrency, which can be slow but are certainly some kind of progress. A line from immortal comic strip Calvin & Hobbes goes “a good compromise leaves everybody mad.” When it comes to laws governing crypto, authorities are usually asking for pretty major compromises because they are, at their very best-intentioned, trying to work things out. While it’s a fast-developing area of law — honestly a treat to cover — that means it’s fast-developing relative to law, not tech. There is an innate conservatism to anything having....